First of all, I want mom to know that I am working on her second sleeve and have begun cabling.

Secondly, Nate is knitting. You heard me right, the man is knitting. Currently. As I’m typing this. In fact, I’ve been interrupted several times by a call for help from the other room. (He’s not overly patient, either).

I’ll try to make a long story relatively short. Basically, while at Hilltop two Saturdays ago, Nate spotted some Rowan R2 Rag yarn. He liked it. He’s been secretly thinking about it ever since. At the last possible second last Saturday evening, he decided that he needed some. We tried our best to get there before they closed. We weren’t even close. So Monday, he went back.

(Me: “Oooh, is it for me?”
Nate: “Um, no.”)

Monday night, he swatched,

declared that he hated flat knitting on circular needles (which is what I had in the size he needed), and yesterday, went out and bought himself some size 15, 13 inch straights. That’s not all. He made a schematic.

He’s making up a pattern. Fortunately, he’s knitting for Veroncia. This is a good thing, because it is $10 a ball for 27 yards and neither of us thinks he has enough. My question is….. “Who’s yarn budget is this coming out of?”

Finally, look at what he came home with last night.

What in the WORLD are we going to do with this?